ICEHOTEL :: Jukkasjärvi, Sweden

Photography by Mark Thompson

Seventy-two dogs bayed in the gloaming, as the horizon glowed a frosty blue. Everything was snow. We were nearly one hundred miles north of the Arctic Circle where the temperature was minus fifteen degrees Celsius - and we were headed to the IceHotel.

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